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GIVEAWAY: “Cookie Cutters, Comin’ Up Roses”

Posted onDecember 20, 2016byMaryJane

Thank you for dropping by my Raising Jane Journal to participate in my giveaways! We’ve chosen a winner for this giveaway already (click here for details), but don’t be afraid to leave a comment anyway. I love reading them. And stay tuned for more great MaryJanesFarm giveaways.

In the “Comin’ Up Roses,” Feb/Mar issue of MaryJanesFarm, we gave you this heartfelt breakfast idea.

For a chance to win a free 4-piece metal heart-shaped cookie cutter set—just what you need to spread the love—tell me what your most loved dessertisin the comments below. I’ll toss your name into a hat and draw a lucky winner sometime mid-February.

Stay tuned for more magazine-related giveaways. If you’re not yet a subscriber to my magazine, MaryJanesFarm, subscribe here for $19.95/year.

I am a huge fan of cast iron cookware. My parents gave me a set of fry pans and my grandmother’s cornstalk pan when I got married. Recently, I found a dutch oven at Williams Sonoma on a huge discount sale and snatched it up as well.

Our favorite all-time family dessert is something I call Cran-Apple Crisp. It is the perfect blend of tart Granny Smith apples tossed with cinnamon and sugar and fresh cranberries, smothered in a topping that is the perfect blend of brown sugar, butter, oats and walnuts. It’s so versatile – great as a Fall dessert, as a holiday dessert or as a summer dessert, served warm of course with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yum!

My “best favorite” dessert is coconut cream pie. It’s also my favorite birthday cake. And I have subscribed to you magazine for quite some time. I purchased the first magazine several years ago at Tractor Supply Company. I cried when I got that magazine home, because it was so nice to know there were other women who celebrated the farm lifestyle in heart as much “fer reals.”

It is so hard to pick just one, 85 would have to be either, Chocolate Pie, Double Chocolate Chip cookies, or Vanilla Icecream with Chocolate Chips (noticing a trend?)…. pretty much anything chocolate I love. Dark Chocolate is my favorite (around 60-70% cacao)

My favorite dessert is chocolate cheesecake. But lately, I have been making your “Cherry Cordials” with such rave reviews that I’m making three batches a week! Sending people out of church moaning in delight, or quilting, or meetings…same response. Thank you so much! I wish I could eat them all myself but it’s Christmas and fun to create a memory that will become a tradition every year.

My all time favorite dessert is a brownie trifle… layers of brownies, thick chocolate pudding, cool whip and heath bar crumbles repeated twice more making a triple layer of yumminess. Sadly I found out I am allergic to dairy, and I haven’t found a way to make it dairy free yet… but I will!

Strawberry shortcake the way mama made it when I was a little girl! She used the box of frozen strawberries (remember how the end had to be pried off?), those little store-bought shortcakes, and of course the whipped cream in a squirt can.

My favoite dessert is rhubarb strawberry Cinnamons rolls !! It’s a receipe my mother made up. It’s fabulous !! We lived in Minnesota , rhubarb was one of the few fruits we had. , so my mom would make up all kinds of new receipes to make one garden idem refreshing n new to eat!!!!!i make these cinnamon rolls as the fresh spring rhubarb comes up. Yum!!! Mom was a great cook !!!!

I am doin this for my older sister who is 74. Her favorite dessert is rice pudding. If she was in a hurry she would make vanilla pudding and add rice to it. Our Aunt used to tell her, no, thats not how you make it!

Fried apples, cooked in my cast iron skillet with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and a splash of maple syrup. I have cooked in cast iron pans since before I was married (over 38 years ago). Our 1st purchase before we were even married was a 4 in 1 cast iron pot. It is my favorite!

All proceeds (minus shipping and packing) will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Here’s how:

MaryJane will post a photo of the prop and its cost here along with a few details as to its condition. The first person to call the farm and talk with Brian, 208-882-6819, becomes the new owner of a little bit of herstory. Shipping will be either USPS or UPS, our choice. No returns.